Sign up for a free/basic Dynamic DNS account at no-ip.com You install a small service on your machine which can watch your router for changes to the I.P. address assigned to it by your broadband provider. It will then update a DNS entry for you so that you can contact the machine by a hostname.
Then you need to open some ports (3483 & 9000) on your router pointing them to the Slimserver box. The exact mechanism for doing this varies by router. If you just want to stream audio to Winamp, you just need port 9000. If want to run Softsqueeze, then you'll need 3483 also. Here's the Wiki entry. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?ConnectingRemotely -- oreillymj ------------------------------------------------------------------------ oreillymj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=699 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27269 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
